Industrial
Because many new rope materials weigh around 75% less than wire cable of equivalent strength, installation & dismantling times are much faster and safer. Large savings in mechanical handling and through-life costs are available and all associated costs can be hugely reduced. Compared with wire cable, fibre rope is easier to handle, doesn’t corrode, offers colour coding and needs little maintenance.
One or several lines can be tensioned in a Spinlock clutch or jammer and held indefinitely at the required load. With a single high load jammer, the ‘safe holding’ load can be as much as 50% of the ultimate break load of the rope with minimal abrasion.
Recent Spinlock industrial projects include: Site Safety equipment and systems
Deep water platform mooring
Temporary military structures
Load monitoring
Dynamic architecture
Overhead and undersea cable handling
Kite and glider controls
MoD contracts